Gangu, B.T.Reddy, E.Rama2018-03-212018-03-211996-02-15http://hdl.handle.net/1944/2173Thispaper presents the experience of the Indira Gandhi Memorial (/GM) Library in automatingits house-keeping operations. It discusses at the outset the need for library automation and lists in brief various areas of library house-keeping operations that are amenable to automation. It further describes in detail the effort made towards the library automation i.e. theinitial efforts; the hardware and software selection and up gradation; building of database; link to the Campus Network and introduction of barcode technology to improve the efficiency of the circulation procedures etc;enIGM LibraryHyderabadHouse Keeping OperationAutomationArticle